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List of missionaries to New Spain

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During the Spanish colonization of the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries, the Spanish Empire established many hundreds of Catholic missions throughout their colonies in the Americas. These missions were founded and staffed by numerous Catholic religious orders of regular clergy. The following is a list of these missionaries to New Spain.

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Augustinians

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Carmelites

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  • {{ill|Antonio de la Ascensión|es}}{{cite book |last1=Beebe |first1=Rose Marie |last2=Senkewicz |first2=Robert M. |title=Lands of promise and despair : chronicles of early California, 1535-1846 |date=2001 |publisher=Santa Clara, CA : Santa Clara University ; Berkeley, CA : Heyday Books |isbn=978-1-890771-48-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/landsofpromisede00rose |access-date=1 December 2024}}{{rp|46}}

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Dominicans

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  • Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566){{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Cameron D. |title=In Service of Two Masters: The Missionaries of Ocopa, Indigenous Resistance, and Spanish Governance in Bourbon Peru |date=2018 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-1-5036-0431-5 |page=15}}
  • Caietano Pallás{{rp|533}}
  • Crisótomo Gómez{{rp|525}}
  • Domingo Betanzos{{CathEncy|wstitle=Fray Domingo Betanzos}}
  • Francisco Galisteo{{rp|521}}
  • Joaquin Valero{{rp|522}}
  • José Estéves{{rp|478}}
  • José Ibar{{rp|478}}
  • José Loriente{{rp|522}}
  • Joseph Sadoc Alemany (1814–1888){{cite book |last1=Vallejo |first1=Mariano Guadalupe |title=Recuerdos: Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769–1849 (2 Volume Set) |date=2 March 2023 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-9264-2 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Recuerdos/VIGREAAAQBAJ |access-date=2 December 2024 |language=en}}
  • Juan Crióstomo Gómez{{rp|532}}
  • Luis Sales{{rp|522}}
  • Manuel García{{rp|522}}
  • Miguel Hidalgo{{rp|522}}
  • Vicente Mora{{cite book |last1=Engelhardt |first1=Zephyrin |title=Lower California |date=1908 |publisher=James H. Barry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xb8UAAAAYAAJ |access-date=19 February 2024 |language=en}}{{rp|478}}

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Franciscans

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Jesuits

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  • Adam Guilg (b. 1652){{rp|371}}
  • {{ill|Agustín de Campos|es}} (1669–1737)
  • Alejandro Romano (1664–1724){{rp|27}}
  • Alexandro Rapicani (1702–1768){{rp|63}}
  • Alonso de Arrivillaga{{rp|23}}
  • Alonso Ignacio Benito Espinosa (1720–1786){{cite web |title=Alonso Ignacio Benito Espinosa |url=https://www.nps.gov/tuma/learn/historyculture/alonso-ignacio-benito-espinosa.htm |website=www.nps.gov |publisher=U.S. National Park Service |access-date=3 May 2024 |language=en}}
  • Andrés Pérez de Ribas (1576–1655){{rp|2}}
  • Andrés Tutino{{rp|88}}
  • Andrés Xavier García (b. 1686){{rp|28}}
  • Antonio Arras
  • Antonio Basilio{{rp|110}}
  • Antonio Leal{{rp|111}}
  • Antonio María Benz (1716–1766){{rp|60}}
  • Baltazar Carrillo{{rp|62}}
  • {{ill|Bartolomé Castaño|es}} (1601–1672){{rp|52}}
  • Bartolomé Sáenz (1714–1768){{rp|382}}
  • Benno Ducrue{{rp|24}}
  • Bernard Middendorff (1723–1794){{rp|60}}
  • Bernardo Pardo (1619–{{circa}} 1685){{rp|22}}
  • Carlos de Roxas
  • Carlos Zelestri{{cite journal |last1=Radonic |first1=Lucero |title=The Mototícachi Massacre: Authorized Pimas and the Specter of the Insurrectionary Indian |journal=Journal of the Southwest |date=2014 |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=253–267 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/145/article/553395/pdf |access-date=26 February 2025 |issn=2158-1371}}
  • Cornelius Beudin{{rp|110}}
  • Cristóbal de Cañas (1680–1740){{rp|235}}
  • Cristóbal de Vallalta{{rp|74}}
  • Cristóbal García
  • Custodio Ximeno (b. 1734){{rp|164}}{{rp|383}}
  • Daniel Angelo Marras (d. 1689){{rp|23}}
  • Daniel Januske
  • Diego de Acevedo{{rp|75}}
  • Diego de Almonacir
  • Diego de la Cruz (b. 1581){{cite book |last1=Roca |first1=Paul M. |title=Paths of the Padres Through Sonora: An Illustrated History & Guide to Its Spanish Churches |date=1967 |publisher=Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Paths_of_the_Padres_Through_Sonora/r4RaAAAAMAAJ |access-date=9 December 2024 |language=en}}{{rp|7}}
  • Diego José Barrera (1726–1782){{rp|369}}
  • Diego Ortíz de Faronda{{rp|110}}
  • Diego Vandersnipe
  • Egidio Montefrío
  • Enrique Ruhen (1718–1751){{rp|11}}
  • Eusebio Kino{{cite journal |last1=Hammond |first1=George |title=Pimería Alta after Kino's Time |journal=New Mexico Historical Review |date=1 July 1929 |volume=4 |issue=3 |page=222 |url=https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr/vol4/iss3/3/?utm_source=digitalrepository.unm.edu%2Fnmhr%2Fvol4%2Fiss3%2F3&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages |access-date=27 April 2024 |issn=0028-6206}}
  • Felipe Esgrecho
  • Fernando Bayerca (1663–1730){{rp|370}}
  • Fernando Consag{{rp|20}}
  • Francis Bennon Ducrue{{CathEncy|wstitle=Francis Bennon Ducrue}}
  • Francisco Gonzalvo (1673–1702){{rp|32}}{{rp|59}}
  • Francisco Gutiérrez{{rp|60}}
  • Francisco Hlava (1725–1756){{rp|51}}{{rp|60}}
  • Francisco María Píccolo{{rp|23}}
  • Francisco Paris
  • Francisco Xavier Door{{rp|27}}
  • Francisco Xavier Pauer (1721–1770){{rp|104}}{{rp|60}}
  • {{ill|Francisco Javier Saeta|es}} (d. 1695){{cite journal |last1=Brenneman |first1=Dale S. |title=Learning the Landscape: The O'odham Acclimation of Father Agustín de Campos |journal=Journal of the Southwest |date=2014 |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=269–291 |jstor=24394917 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24394917 |access-date=27 April 2024 |issn=0894-8410}}
  • Francisco Xavier Villarroya{{rp|165}}
  • Franz Hermann Glandorf{{cite book |last1=Bayne |first1=Brandon |title=Missions Begin with Blood: Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain |date=26 October 2021 |publisher=Fordham University Press |isbn=978-0-8232-9421-3 |language=en}}{{rp|5}}
  • Gaspar Stiger (1695–1762){{cite book |last1=Chapman |first1=Charles Edward |title=The Founding of Spanish California: The Northwestward Expansion of New Spain, 1687-1783 |date=1916 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-1-4047-6338-8 |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5A96AAAAMAAJ |access-date=29 April 2024 |language=en}}{{rp|59}}
  • Gerónimo de la Canal
  • Gerónimo de Moranta{{rp|88}}
  • Gerónimo Figueroa
  • {{ill|Gonzalo de Tapia|es}} (1561–1594){{rp|24}}
  • Guillermo Maluenda{{cite book |last1=Stagg |first1=Albert L. |title=The First Bishop of Sonora: Antonio de los Reyes, O.F.M |date=1 June 1976 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |isbn=978-0-8165-0549-4 |language=English}}{{rp|14}}
  • Hernando de Cabrero{{rp|17}}
  • Hernando de Santarén (d. 1616){{rp|6}}
  • Hernando de Tovar{{rp|88}}
  • Ignacio de Arzeo{{cite book |last1=Kessell |first1=John L. |title=Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California |date=27 February 2013 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-8944-4 |page=215 |language=en}}
  • Ignacio Lizasoin
  • Ignacio Molarja{{Cite web|last1=Zambrano|first1=Padre Francisco|title=Diccionario bio-bibliográfico de la Compañía de Jesús en México|date=1961 |url=https://archive.org/stream/diccionariobiobi10zamb/diccionariobiobi10zamb_djvu.txt|publisher=EDITORIAL JUS, S. A. MEXICO|language=Spanish|access-date=9 July 2016}}
  • Ignacio Tirsch (1760s)
  • Ignacio Xavier Keller{{cite book |title=New Mexico Historical Review |date=1928 |publisher=Historical Society of New Mexico and Department of History, School of American Research |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9E8UAAAAYAAJ |access-date=11 February 2024 |language=en}}{{rp|235}}
  • Ignacio Yturmendi (d. 1702){{rp|103}}
  • Ignaz Pfefferkorn (1725–1756){{rp|24}}{{rp|60}}
  • Ildefonso de la Peña{{rp|44}}
  • Jacob Baegert{{rp|23}}
  • Jacobo Sedelmayr (1703–1779){{rp|63}}{{rp|60}}
  • Jaime Mateu{{rp|24}}
  • Jerónimo Minutuli
  • Jorge Hostinki{{rp|58}}
  • José Aguilar (1653–1724){{cite journal |last1=Officer |first1=James E. |title=Kino and Agriculture in the Pimeria Alta |journal=The Journal of Arizona History |date=1993 |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=287–306 |jstor=41696025 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41696025 |access-date=27 April 2024 |issn=0021-9053}}{{rp|56}}
  • José Fora
  • José Haffenrichter{{rp|380}}
  • José María Genovese{{rp|42}}
  • José Neve (1739–1773){{cite journal |last1=Donohue |first1=J. Augustine |title=The Unlucky Jesuit Mission of Bac, 1732-1767 |journal=Arizona and the West |date=1960 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=127–139 |jstor=40167016 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40167016 |access-date=3 May 2024 |issn=0004-1408}}{{rp|380}}
  • José Osorio{{cite book |last1=Polzer |first1=Charles W. |title=The Jesuit Missions of Northern Mexico |date=1991 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-8240-2096-5 |language=en}}{{rp|132}}
  • José Pío Laguna (1734–1768){{rp|380}}
  • José Toral (d. 1763){{cite web |title=Mission 2000 Database |url=https://www.nps.gov/applications/tuma/detail.cfm?Personal_ID=23068 |website=www.nps.gov |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=8 May 2024}}
  • Joseph Barba
  • Joseph de Arjó{{rp|24}}
  • José de Torres Perea (d. 1747){{rp|43}}{{rp|368}}
  • Joseph Garrucho (1712–1785){{rp|87}}
  • Joseph Neumann{{cite book |last1=Lister |first1=Florence Cline |title=Chihuahua; storehouse of storms |date=1966 |publisher=University of New Mexico Press |location=Albuquerque |url=https://archive.org/details/chihuahuastoreho0000list |access-date=8 May 2024}}{{rp|47}}
  • Joseph Och (1725–1773){{rp|24}}{{rp|60}}
  • Joseph Felix Pallares{{rp|23}}
  • Juan Antonio de Oviedo (1670–1757){{rp|28}}
  • Juan Antonio Balthasar (1730s){{rp|91}}
  • Juan Antonio Zedano (1727–1787){{rp|60}}
  • Juan Bautista Barli (d. 1694){{rp|370}}
  • Juan Bautista de Velasco{{rp|57}}
  • Juan Bautista Grazhoffer{{rp|45}}
  • Juan de Almonacir{{rp|23}}
  • Juan de Avendaño
  • Juan de Castillejo
  • Juan de Guendulain{{rp|24}}
  • Juan de la Plaza{{rp|51}}
  • Juan de San Martín
  • Juan de Ugarte
  • Juan Echagoyan{{rp|60}}
  • Juan Fernandez Cavera{{cite book |last1=Bancroft |first1=Hubert Howe |title=History of the Pacific States of North America: North American states. 1883 |date=1883 |publisher=A.L. Bancroft |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5dI1AAAAIAAJ |access-date=6 May 2024 |language=en}}{{rp|253}}
  • Juan Fonte (d. 1616){{rp|88}}
  • Juan Muñoz de Burgos{{rp|111}}
  • Juan Nentuig
  • Juan Ortiz de Zapata{{rp|21}}
  • Juan Maria Salvatierra (1648–1717){{rp|58}}
  • Julio Pascual (d. 1632){{rp|6}}
  • Lambert Hostell{{rp|23}}
  • Lorenzo Carranco (d. 1734){{rp|24}}
  • Lorenzo de Cárdenas (1596–1656){{cite book |last1=Yetman |first1=David |title=Conflict in Colonial Sonora: Indians, Priests, and Settlers |date=1 November 2012 |publisher=UNM Press |isbn=978-0-8263-5222-4 |language=en}}{{rp|8}}
  • Lorenzo Ignacio Gutiérrez{{rp|60}}
  • Luis Lucas Alvarez{{rp|30}}
  • Luis Mancuso{{rp|107}}
  • Luís María Gallardi (d. 1736){{rp|235}}{{rp|60}}
  • Luís María Marciano
  • Luis María Pineli
  • Luis Vivas (b. 1720){{rp|60}}
  • Luis Xavier Velarde{{rp|34}}
  • Manuel Aguirre{{rp|71}}
  • Manuel de Benavides
  • Manuel Gonzáles (1645–1702){{rp|58}}
  • Manuel Martinez (d. 1632){{rp|6}}
  • Manuel Sánchez{{rp|110}}
  • Marcos Antonio Kappus{{cite book |last1=Sheridan |first1=Thomas E. |title=Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O'odham |date=26 May 2016 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |isbn=978-0-8165-3441-8 |language=en}}{{rp|31}}
  • Marcos Burriel{{rp|24}}
  • Marcos de Loyola{{rp|111}}
  • Marcos de Somoza
  • Marcos del Río
  • Martín Azpilcueta (1596–1637){{rp|8}}
  • Martín Burgencio
  • Martín Peláez{{rp|14}}
  • Martín Pérez{{rp|24}}
  • Melchor Bartíromo
  • Miguel Capetillo{{rp|60}}
  • Miguel de la Vega{{rp|369}}
  • Miguel Gerstner (1723–1756){{rp|51}}{{rp|60}}
  • Nicolás de Anaya{{rp|84}}
  • Nicolás de Oro
  • Nicolás de Perera
  • Nicolás Hidalgo{{cite book |last1=Gutierrez |first1=Ramon A. |title=When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 |date=1 January 1991 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-1832-5 |page=114 |edition=1st |language=English}}
  • Nicolás Tamaral (d. 1734){{rp|24}}
  • Pedro Antonio Díaz{{rp|18}}
  • Pedro Bueno
  • Pedro de Barcelón
  • Pedro de Hortigosa{{cite book |last1=Dunne |first1=Peter Masten |title=Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico |date=15 November 2023 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-34840-0 |language=en}}{{rp|49}}
  • Pedro de Sandoval
  • Pedro Martinez (d. 1566){{rp|20}}
  • Pedro Matías Goni
  • Pedro Mendez (d. 1642){{rp|7}}
  • Pedro Pantoja{{cite journal |last1=Eckhart |first1=George B. |title=The Seri Indian Missions |journal=Kiva |date=1960 |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=37–43 |jstor=30246977 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30246977 |access-date=22 February 2024 |issn=0023-1940}}
  • Pedro Ruiz de Contreras
  • Philipp Segesser{{rp|235}}
  • Rodrigo de Cabredo{{cite book |last1=Polzer |first1=Charles W. |title=Rules and precepts of the Jesuit missions of northwestern New Spain |date=1976 |publisher=Tucson : University of Arizona Press |isbn=978-0-8165-0551-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/rulespreceptsofj0000polz/}}{{rp|14}}
  • Sigismundo Taraval{{rp|19}}
  • Tomás Altamirano{{rp|21}}
  • Tomás Basilio (1582–1654){{rp|8}}
  • Tomás Tello (1720–1751){{rp|11}}

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Mercedarians

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  • Francisco de Cuevas{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Bruce |title=Structures of Reform: The Mercedarian Order in the Spanish Golden Age |date=1 October 2021 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-47373-7 |page=88 |language=en}}

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References

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Category:Roman Catholic missionaries in New Spain

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